Two Elite Programs, One Sale: Solo Select Hosts Wyoming’s 88 Ranch for a 23-Lot Online Sale Nov. 22, With Every Horse on Display at the Nov. 21 Open House
GAINESVILLE, Texas—Solo Select will host the 88 Ranch Special Sale, a 23-lot online auction of ranch-raised performance horses from Wyoming’s six-generation Henry family program, Nov. 22 at bid.soloselecthorses.com, with every lot stabled at Solo Select and presented in person during the Solo Select Open House Nov. 21.
The sale brings together two programs built on the same conviction—that the best performance horses are bred on purpose, from proven mares, by stallions with the pedigree and the record to back them up. 88 Ranch, headquartered in Douglas, Wyoming, has raised horses since supplying a stage stop in 1878 and still puts every colt to work on a commercial cattle operation before it reaches the arena. Solo Select, with more than $100 million in cumulative sales, stands 88 Ranch’s Brazilian-born stallion Sheik Jean Fly HTT and will handle presentation, housing, photography and video for every consignment.
“I think the most exciting part of the sale for me is that it’s at Solo,” 88 Ranch owner Garrett Henry said. “As far as 88 Ranch and the family, we’re definitely most excited about having it at Solo. Solo and Melanie and Ty are such industry leaders, and to have the opportunity to have a sale with them is just an absolute blessing and an honor. That’s by far the most exciting part of it for us.”
The Deepest 88 Ranch Offering Yet
The catalog spans the full breeding cycle: three 2027 embryos, five 2026 weanlings, four broodmare packages with foals at side, two yearling stud colts, six 2-year-olds and three 3-year-olds. Eighteen horses and pregnancies are by Sheik Jean Fly HTT, giving buyers the first concentrated look at the stallion’s riding-age get ahead of his first futurity crop in 2027.
“We’re offering some horses that I think are by far some of our best,” Henry said. “Last year was our first year of selling some of the Sheik Jean Flys that we’re riding, but this year we have anything from frozen embryos to foals in utero, weanlings, yearlings, 2-year-olds, riding horses and some broodmares. I think it’s by far the most diverse set of horses that we’ve offered.”
Rare Pedigrees, Ranch-Raised
Hip 201, Persnikitty (Slick By Design x RC Back In Black), is a $61,446 earner out of three-time NFR round winner and 2023 BFA Mare Power Award recipient RC Back In Black, who has produced nearly $1 million, including $875,000 Pink Buckle sale-topper Blackkout and Fizz Bomb Futurity Champion Slick N Black. Persnikitty’s 2026 Sheik colt (Hip 155) and a 2027 embryo (Hip 101) sell separately.
Hip 152, a 2026 sorrel colt, is out of My Lady Bug Leo (Shawne Bug Leo), a $77,635 earner whose family includes AQHA World Champion Happy To Run Em and $677,296 NFR horse DM High Roller. A full-sibling 2027 embryo sells as Hip 102.
Hip 251, Relentless Business, is a 2025 blue roan colt by The Notorious B I G out of Relentless Glory by Metallic Cat—the Select Genes mare whose daughter Relentless Empire sold for $900,000 at the 2026 Old West Rope Horse Sale. Hip 252, Sort Of Famous, is a 2025 sorrel colt by $31.8 million sire Stevie Rey Von out of Sort Of Popular by AQHA Superhorse Popular Resortfigure—“Pouraguaja,” the mare Marcos Costa rode to the 2016 PRCA tie-down roping world championship and a runner-up finish in that year’s AQHA/PRCA Tie-Down Roping Horse of the Year voting.
“What I would consider some of our very best pairs is what these colts are out of—My Lady Bug Leo, LLP Streakin Dolly,” Henry said. “Persnikitty, we’re putting her in the sale, which won over $60,000 in the barrel futurities, and some of her babies.”
The riding horses include Sheik Jean Fly HTT 2-year-olds out of daughters of Dash For Perks, Corona Cartel, A Smooth Guy, PC Redwood Manny and A Streak Of Fling, the 3-year-old gray gelding First Sheik To Perk (Sheik Jean Fly HTT x First To Perk by Dash For Perks), and 3-year-old mares Kiss Me Easily (JL Dash Ta Heaven x Streakin Easy April) and Bulleve Im Epic (Epic Leader x Bulleva). Three-in-one packages on Metallic Wild Child (Metallic Cat) and Famouseaglesnowcone (One Famous Eagle), each with a 2026 Sheik filly at side and bred back to him, and Peppermint Mocha (Blazin Jetolena) with a Sheik colt at side round out the broodmare section.
Every 88 Ranch horse is raised to work. Colt starter Troy Brandemuehl puts 100 days on the ranch’s young horses before they spend months at remote cow camps gathering and doctoring cattle, the foundation that produced ARHFA top-25 head horse Summer Colada and ProRodeo breakaway earner Bugzees Heist.
“We try to make our horses multidimensional, because we not only have a job we need to accomplish, but we’re trying to produce athletes that can go on to the arena,” Henry said.
Sheik Jean Fly HTT: The Outcross
Sheik Jean Fly HTT, a 2014 sorrel by Victory Fly VM 01IBR—Brazil’s leading barrel sire—out of Tiny Martha Jean by Marthas Six Moons, ran multiple sub-17-second standard patterns in Brazil, was a Pink Buckle Round 1 Open 2D finalist and tested 7-panel N/N. He stands at Solo Select for $2,500 in 2027, and his foals are eligible for the Solo Select Stallion Incentive, Pink Buckle, Ruby Buckle, Riata Buckle, Royal Crown, Future Fortunes, Triple Crown 100, Young Guns, Colorado Classic, Legendary Stakes and Ropers Classic programs, as listed in the catalog.
Open House at the Ranch, Then the Sale
All 23 lots are housed at Solo Select and will be shown during the Solo Select Open House, Saturday, Nov. 21, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Gainesville ranch. The open house is free and open to the public and also features Solo’s 250-plus November and NCHA Futurity sale horses, every stallion standing at Solo Select in 2027, facility tours and the Solo Select Advisory Symposium. Visitors are asked to RSVP at openhouse.soloselect.com.
The Henry family will be on the grounds to show horses and answer questions.
“All the family will be down there,” Henry said. “We plan to be there and we’re excited to do what we can and answer whatever questions we can. It’ll be fun. We’re excited for it.”
Bidding opens at 8 a.m. CST Sunday, Nov. 22, at bid.soloselecthorses.com and closes at 5 p.m. CST. Vet statements, radiographs and palpation videos are posted on each lot.
Contact
Solo Select Sale Office:
Shelby Minzenmayer, 940-727-3282 sale@soloselect.com.
88 Ranch Performance Horses:
Garrett Henry, 307-358-5941 88performancehorses.com.
About 88 Ranch Performance Horses
88 Ranch Performance Horses is a working cattle ranch in Douglas, Wyoming, operated by the Henry family for six generations. The ranch breeds and trains horses for team roping, breakaway roping, barrel racing and cow horse events and stands the stallions Casino Heist and Sheik Jean Fly HTT.
About Solo Select Horses
Solo Select Horses, founded by Melanie Smith in Gainesville, Texas, is a Western performance horse breeding, stallion, sales and advisory operation with more than $100 million in cumulative sales and a recipient herd of more than 2,500 mares.
